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botanical and general purposes, the other for geological. The 

 former took the road to the north, making for the villages of 

 Bempton and Buckton, which were reached fairly early. At 

 the latter place, just at the little mere (E.R. dialect ' marr '), 

 251 feet above sea level, the old sunken lane towards the cliff 

 edge was entered upon, and after half a mile the little stream 

 which fills the mere was found cutting through a bit of marshy 

 ground, a list of the plants of which may not be without interest. 

 They were : — Caltha palustris, Ranunculus hederaceus, R. 

 Flammula, Cardamine pratensis, Valeriana dioica (apparently 

 the dominating plant in flower), Menyanthes trifoliata (buck 

 bean, very sparingly), Veronica beccabunga, Pinguicula vul- 

 garis (flowering nicely), Anagallis tenella, Orchis latifolia (not 

 incarnata), Eriophorum angustifolium, Car ex glaiica and 

 Eqiiisetum limostim. 



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Buckton Marsh, Flamborough. 



[C. IV. Mason. 



Ascending the dry, grassy slope towards the northern 

 edge of Buckton and Bempton Cliffs, the vegetation proved 

 to be quite of a different order. The dominant grass is an 

 Agrostis, in which were copiously intermingled Viola silvestris, 

 Polygala oxyptera, Lotus corniculatus , Lathyrus montanus, 

 Bernh, vel L. macrorrhizus, Wim, and chiefly the variety 

 tenuifolius Roth., Poterium Sanguisorba, Galuim verum, 

 much Conopodium denudatum, and moonwort, Botrychitim 

 Lunaria. 



On the dry earthen dyke which, surmounted with barbed 

 wire, separates the field just named from the extreme edge 



19:2 July I. P 



